Author: Uditha Devapriya

In the aftermath of the July 1983 riots, Newton Gunasinghe authored two pieces on what happened and what had to…

Advocata Institute asks the Sri Lankan government to go to the IMF and restructure its debt. Here's why that's not…

Our liberals, neoliberals, and left-liberals are worried about sovereignty. Will they heed the call to do what should be done…

The SJB’s response to a democracy deficit should not be adherence to a failed ideology.

What defines Champika Ranakawa, one of the most enigmatic political heavyweights from recent times.

Given its tilt to a left-liberal caucus, the JVP runs the risk of losing its working class roots.

While mainstream historians have written of how the leaders of 1948 oversaw a transition in the country's history from colonial…

Humanitarian intervention, far from being “devoid of raw national interest” as its proponents and even opponents have conjectured, has actually…

Champika Ranawaka seems to have “neo-conned” Sinhala Buddhist nationalists without abandoning the Sinhala Buddhist nationalist ship.

When it comes to countries like ours, the debate over whether positive rights should be made justiciable must not start…

Ranjan Ramanayake appeals to the social media pro-democracy middle-class crowd because he has gone through the easy way of critiquing…

In uncorking the populist genie from the Samagi Jana Balavegaya, Sajith Premadasa seems to have uncorked the Sinhala nationalist genie…

To expect anything more from the neoliberal bourgeoisie than opposition to the nationalist bourgeoisie would be to expect wings from…

The Sinhala Buddhist middle class youth of Colombo are as much a bubble as Ranil Wickremesinghe's Kolombian hosanna singers. If…

Contrary to what certain commentators say, Biden-Harris will be completely different foreign policy wise to Trump-Pence.

The #GotaFail campaign tells us a lot about the failures, not of this regime, but of the regime those promoting…

Where a government attempts neoliberal shock therapy while bypassing the prerequisites of industrialisation, it will widen inequality, leading to its…

The Opposition must take the Latin American experience to heart: if its support base doesn't go beyond an upper middle…

The Jathika Chintanaya has got it more right than most Left outfits and NGOs on the problems ailing our economy.

The rise of the Jathika Chintanaya in the 1980s must be traced to the descent, and the capitulation, of the…

Paangshu continues to be reviewed positively by critics who, during the second insurrection, would have called the victims of State-led…

The two most discriminated groups in post-19th century Sri Lanka were not minorities engaged in trade, but rather Kandyan peasants…

When it comes to the reality of plantation colonialism in countries like ours, certain myths have to be debunked.

In Sri Lanka there is a poverty of protest, and artists and activists who see the root causes of our…

For them to reach the people and make an impact, the NGOs of Sri Lanka must move beyond cocktail circuits…

In the ninth parliament of Sri Lanka, the Opposition has become a many-headed hydra fighting a formidable behemoth.

Their nationalism, as with their reformism, was limited by their economic interests. “They were men acting in the interests of…

Unfortunately while many Sinhala scholars are willing to take up cudgels against nationalists spouting historical myths, not many Tamil scholars…

The NGOs, the think-tanks, and the columnists, particularly in the English language media, have let the Opposition go scot-free. This…

Your Excellency, Enacted in 1978, our present Constitution is Gaullist in conception and character, strongly and unequivocally republican. The conditions…